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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Social Search Engines: Social media are a new way to contribute digital content, so we need better ways to search for this content than the big search engines offer.

The emergence of social media means a new and different way for people to contribute digital content. Likewise, it means we need new ways to search for and find this new content. The big search engines don't necessarily focus on finding this content. This session will provide an overview of some search engines that help you find information in the social media. At the end of this session, you should be able to:

Understand why we want to search and participate in the social media

Understand what types of search engines are available on the public Internet that allow you to search social content.

About Bill Chamberlin
Bill is a 30 year veteran of IBM spanning a career in both Sales and Marketing. He has spent the last 16 years in IBM's Market Insights organization supporting IBM Marketing and Strategy professionals. He currently works as a Principal Consultant Analyst on a small team focused on helping IBMers develop social media marketing strategies. Bill is also a community leader, having built and managed the 1900 member HorizonWatch community within IBM since 2001. He is very active in the social media blogging and tweeting under the HorizonWatching brand name. Bill received his MBA in 1995 from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and has lived in the Chicagoland area his entire life.